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Stoker

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See {Stoke}, v. t.]
   1. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with
      fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a
      marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a
      fire.

   2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).

Source : WordNet®

Stoker
     n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
          [syn: {Bram Stoker}, {Abraham Stoker}]
     2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
        steamship) [syn: {fireman}]
     3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
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